Pinnella, a sales manager at Sacramento’s ABC news affiliate, was in perfect health at the start of the year, but began to feel sick. A week later, her family told KXTV, she went to see her doctor. She was hospitalized and died Saturday.

Pinella had not gotten her flu shot, something that medical experts say is particularly important this year. As of last week, the state had confirmed 95 flu-related deaths in adults under age 65.

Pinnella’s two brothers, neither of whom had gotten their flu shot, rushed out and got one, according to KXTV. They’re encouraging others to do the same.

“You still may get the flu, but the severity of it will be so much less and you won’t have to go through what our sister went through and you’ll be a survivor,” Rich Pinnella said.